Account of Donations We Made

[qesehmk]

For the month of March, we donated in advance to Ekal Vidyalaya a small sum of $51. It's a great charity doing great work for the underpriviledged and tribal students from remote/tribal areas of India. They run over 30,000 schools in India with over 1M students. It's a great success story and great work.

[qesehmk]

Friends,

For April we donated $191 and committed additional $200 for May and $200 for Jun to NadRoop - a Pune India based non-profit. It is an Indian Classical Dance School that promotes Kathak and its fusion with contemporary music and art forms. They are celebrating their silver jubilee this year.

As you know we donate this money through the ad revenue of this site. So thanks to you all for that.

[qesehmk]

Friends,

Forgot to update that we allocated additional $200 from our monthly revenue towards NaadRoop during this month. As you know this forum is run as not-for-profit and so we donate the monthly revenues (quote often more) to charitable and social organizations.

Friends,

For April we donated $191 and committed additional $200 for May and $200 for Jun to NadRoop - a Pune India based non-profit. It is an Indian Classical Dance School that promotes Kathak and its fusion with contemporary music and art forms. They are celebrating their silver jubilee this year.

As you know we donate this money through the ad revenue of this site. So thanks to you all for that.

[qesehmk]

Friends,

Header updated with Jun Donations. Just to remind - these donations are made out of the advertising revenue from this site. So thanks to all of you.

Q

[qesehmk]

Friends,

It's been a while since the last donations. We have about $100 we can donate. Please suggest names and then we can vote on them.

If we don't receive new names - we will just go round robin! So pl do suggest good non-profit charities.

[dorais]

I am not sure if this charity (Vibha) has been suggested earlier.

Website:
http://sites.vibha.org/

List of projects:
http://projects.vibha.org/projects/


Mission:
Our mission is to educate, empower and enable every individual who wishes to make a positive difference in the life of the underprivileged child.

Founded in 1991, today Vibha has a volunteer network of over 800 volunteers spread across 15 Action Centers (Atlanta, Austin, Bay Area, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Twin Cities - Minnesota, New York, Philadelphia, Sacramento, Washington DC) and several other cities across the US and India. Till date, we have supported over190 projects in India and the US.

Thanks.

[qesehmk]

Thank you dorais. Will certainly include.

Others please feel free to suggest more names. We will then create a poll around 10th Sep.

I am not sure if this charity (Vibha) has been suggested earlier.

Website:
http://sites.vibha.org/

List of projects:
http://projects.vibha.org/projects/


Mission:
Our mission is to educate, empower and enable every individual who wishes to make a positive difference in the life of the underprivileged child.

Founded in 1991, today Vibha has a volunteer network of over 800 volunteers spread across 15 Action Centers (Atlanta, Austin, Bay Area, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Twin Cities - Minnesota, New York, Philadelphia, Sacramento, Washington DC) and several other cities across the US and India. Till date, we have supported over190 projects in India and the US.

Thanks.

[tatikonda]

Q,

I would suggest Sphoorthi Organization, I personally donated them several times and admire/appreciate their efforts.

Also, I would like to thank you for providing such a wonderful forum and that too non-profit. hats off to you ...

http://www.sphoorti.org/

SPHOORTI is a non-profit organization working for underprivileged children - orphaned, abandoned, destitute and other vulnerable groups. Our mission is to change lives of such children - by providing them with long-term care. This includes basic needs, education and healthcare, and skills necessary to transform them into responsible citizens.

We have three Childrens' Homes (all in the same locality) - one for boys, one for girls and another for children below 6 years of age. In addition, we have a separate facility for cooking and dining.

[savinir]

Please consider

https://www.rangde.org/ -- The idea of Rang De was sown in the year 2006 - the same year when Mr. Yunus was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work with Grameen Bank. The motivation for starting Rang De was the belief that the peer to peer lending model could be leveraged to lower the cost of microcredit and reach out to under-served communities.

or

http://www.soscvindia.org/charity/sos_updates/index.php this is really a good concept where they bring in orphans and women who have no one together and make them into a family.

[qesehmk]

tatikonda & savinir - thank you. Let's include them for next month. Thank you for sharing!

Q,

I would suggest Sphoorthi Organization, I personally donated them several times and admire/appreciate their efforts.

Also, I would like to thank you for providing such a wonderful forum and that too non-profit. hats off to you ...

http://www.sphoorti.org/

SPHOORTI is a non-profit organization working for underprivileged children - orphaned, abandoned, destitute and other vulnerable groups. Our mission is to change lives of such children - by providing them with long-term care. This includes basic needs, education and healthcare, and skills necessary to transform them into responsible citizens.

We have three Childrens' Homes (all in the same locality) - one for boys, one for girls and another for children below 6 years of age. In addition, we have a separate facility for cooking and dining.

Please consider

https://www.rangde.org/ -- The idea of Rang De was sown in the year 2006 - the same year when Mr. Yunus was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work with Grameen Bank. The motivation for starting Rang De was the belief that the peer to peer lending model could be leveraged to lower the cost of microcredit and reach out to under-served communities.

or

http://www.soscvindia.org/charity/sos_updates/index.php this is really a good concept where they bring in orphans and women who have no one together and make them into a family.

[qesehmk]

Friends,

The poll is now closed. The final vote was - Vibha - 4, Kiva - 3, Aim For Seva - 2.
So we have donated $50 to Vibha. $25 to Kiva. & $25 to Aimforseva.

Thanks for your suggestions.

For next month - we have wikipedia, sphoorti and rangde. We can add a couple more names in the vote if anybody has any other suggestions.

We will open the poll for vote a week from now i.e. 25th Sep and donations will be made 1st week of October.

[qesehmk]

Friends - Based on the suggestions received - for the month of October we have opened a new poll in this thread. Please vote for your charity and we will donate from the ad revenues of this site.

We will close the poll in two weeks.

[qesehmk]

Friends - this poll closes sometime this week. Please vote if you would like...

Friends - Based on the suggestions received - for the month of October we have opened a new poll in this thread. Please vote for your charity and we will donate from the ad revenues of this site.

We will close the poll in two weeks.

[qesehmk]

Friends -

Thank you for your vote - We donated $60 to Sphoorti.com & $30 to Shankara Netralaya from the site's ad revenues for the month of October.

For november - please feel free to suggest any charities you would like to.

[qesehmk]

Friends - this month somehow there were no NEW suggestions. So I just went ahead and donated $75 from the ad revenues to Red Cross towards victims of Hurricane Sandy. First $1M will be matched dollar for dollar. Check out if you are interested - http://www.redcross.org/sandy .

Thank you nonetheless since these ad revenues are because of YOU that we donate!

[qesehmk]

Friends,

As usual this month we will donate from site's ad revenues. As you may be aware - this site is run in a not for profit manner.
So if you have any suggestions for charities please let us know. The site revenues are very small as you can see from past donations. But they help us do a good deed. Then why not?

Best Regards,
Q

[qesehmk]

Dear Users,

Using this site's ad revenues we donated $51 for the month of December to IDRF i.e. India Development and Relief Fund. With this we donated slightly more than last year's donations during this year at $1178. Thank you again!

Regards
Q

[qesehmk]

The site made yet another donation ($50) for the month of December to Nirankari Mission (www.nirankari.org). Also committed $51 for January.

[qesehmk]

The site made a donation of $51 in January to Nirankari.org and also made a $25 donation to newvrindaban.org

[qesehmk]

Friends, this month we received $25 back from a previous kiva loan we had lent. Using those $25 and adding $50 more we made 3 kiva loans again. This time we loaned to 3 groups of Manipuri women. North east has been a long neglected area of India and needs your help. If you like the idea of helping those women please go online at www.kiva.org and extend your loan!

For a complete list of our donations pl see the header of this thread.

[qesehmk]

Q2 Donations Updated

[qesehmk]

Friends,

For last few months GCQ and I tried to focus our donations on innovation education in India. Indian education is generally moribund and usually doesn't foster creativity and problem solving. Rather it emphasizes - not surprisingly - on memorization. Lack of innovation mindset leads to lack of problem solving. So we thought that it would be a good idea to donate towards charities or education institutes in India that could potentially be interested in innovation efforts. The earlier the better. In education there is a saying - "Catch them young". This way the education has maximum impact. That's where we think we would like to focus our donations going forward.

Unfortunately finding credible party that has interest in education for innovation is not that simple. After trying for over 2-3 months, unsuccessfully, we need to take a different route. Instead of chasing people to donate money - let us declare our next intended donation and its purpose. Let the organizations that are already working with these goals - come to us and we will evaluate and if found good fit donate accordingly.

I will create one thread per iteration of this exercise. You don't have to help monetarily - we use site ad revenues for donations. But if you know somebody who could use the donation towards the stated purpose please pass on the information.

Here is our very first iteration of this exercise.
http://www.qesehmk.org/forums/showth...0589#post40589

Any suggestions are welcome.

[qesehmk]

Been a long time I haven't updated this thread.

In case you are looking to donate end of this year please consider Maharashtra Foundation. I know the people, they support some good causes. Here is a link where you can view their projects and donate.

https://www.maharashtrafoundation.or...rent-projects/

p.s. - This month we donated to their causes. Please consider them if you can.